legend

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that each game would have a complied neural architecture library of samples that it would save a s a temp file? I assume that once the DL cores understand the reference material they will create their own reference file to draw from, one that I assume would not be a huge file(s)? 

The developers would collect a bunch of data (i.e., lots and lots of high resolution screenshots). This can be collected trivially, but is large in file size.

Then the developers train a neural network on it. Nvidia probably has a built in API where the developers just point it to the directory of images they saved and let it crank for maybe at most days. 

After training the neural net, you no longer need that data to run the network. Instead you only need to know the weights that the neural network used. (A bunch of floating point numbers.) The weights only total in the megabytes of size, even for a large neural network. 

What that means is for a gamer running the game, they only need to load that weight file into GPU memory and the GPU runs the network using those weights on each frame.

14 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

This image is a wealth of questions! Obviously one can dismiss this as nothing but marketing PR, but there is always a sliver of truth wedged into these things that only becomes clear retrospectively. The first question I have is, why does DLSS have support on the games on the left, but not the games on the right? Is adoption from game to game based on how well these features can "bolt on" to each respective engine? Of does it reflect a time and commitment cost? Why will NO ONE reward my impatience?! 

 

Speculating: 

The DLSS isn't a super sampler for any image that could be provided. Instead, it requires a developer to collect a lot of frames from the game rendered at very high resolutions. Those frames are then input as training data to their DLSS neural *architecture* and they train a neural net specific to your game. Once you've done that, you can have the game load the model it trained and use it for DLSS.

While that would require developer support, collecting many high resolution frames throughout the game is not especially difficult and should be something that could be easily adopted.

11 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

One week from tomorrow, some of us will have our 20xx series cards (or at least they'll be shipping to us!). With that in mind, who pre-ordered? Who is trying to buy day one but did not pre-order? Obviously, at these prices most will pass on buying any of these cards for now. Much has been made of the Ray Tracing feature, but I am currently much more interested in the immediate benefits of DLSS on 4K performance and if this feature, once commonly used, will give these cards a significant boost in FPSs at high resolutions or if its all marketing fluff. I'm honestly just excited to try out new tech, as per usual, but DLSS seems to not be getting much attention and given that Ray Tracing is still not quite ready for prime time, I surprised Nvidia hasn't spoken more  on this feature.  

Yeah the RT is clearly people's focus, but I absolutely agree that what this amount of tensor cores provides may have some really exciting results even in addition to the DLSS. It's more of a wild card at this stage though.

31 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

An acquaintance of mine posted that he was flying home from Vegas today and hopes somebody would try and hijack the plane he was on because he would stop it. 

2 hours ago, Mithan said:

Gaming is like a fine whine

At first I read this as a typo. But on second thought I think it's got levels. 

Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous TTTTTTTT-V Shooooooow.

23 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

He needs to stay outside, then. He's probably safer out there, despite the snakes and predatory birds.

Just to be clear, I wasn't being serious  

9 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

The fact that they are eggs and "living creatures" means you have contributed to their suffering.

 

A better argument is why is eating animals not ok but eating plants ok? Plants can respond to outside stimuli meaning they can feel pain, you're making plants suffer.

Satire, right?

6 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

That wasn't the end of the problem, unfortunately. Few weeks later, the husband came home from work one nightand a rat was sitting in the bathroom. He tried to trap it but it got out and ran into the closet.

Think of it from the rat's perspective. Here he is just trying to have a civilized shit and not only do you barge in on his privacy, you also then chase him out in the middle of it. Pretty rude honestly.

I think I see why these were shown at TGS  

I've always been good with one or two active multiplayer games, and one single player game.

Since getting a Switch, I'm expending that slightly to also have a parallel mobile game, but in general it's rare for me to have more than one active single player game at a time.

11 minutes ago, Nokra said:

Getting upset about this comment by Trump seems to me to be about as stupid as getting upset at someone for kneeling at a football game.   

 

I didn't get the impression from the audio that he was making light of their deaths, and Trump routinely does some truly despicable shit. Is this really worth getting upset over?

Yeah not only is the joke not a blip on the Trump radar of shit, it's not something to be concerned about even in a good world.

On 8/23/2018 at 7:43 PM, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I love this guy. At least based on this video he seems very reasonable in how he's going about this.

Yeah. That's fucking on point.

3 hours ago, brucoe said:

Just wanted to say that I spent some serious time in the game not too long ago, and I had two responses to whether or not you should play this game.

 

1. I'm not sure what the original release game was like, but it's really a lot of fun right now, and it's deeply immersive. My one problem in the first few days of playing the game was that the universe really felt lonely. Then I started finding random vendors and space people on the planets that kind of helped me realize I wasn't alone, but they were always aliens, and my understanding of their knowledge was horridly bad, no matter how many words I learned. I get the impression that you literally have to learn the entire vocabulary of an alien language to even understand a fraction of their language. Part of me thinks that could take months of playing. I'd probably learn their language quicker if there was a Berlitz training manual somewhere outside of the game (the ones that actually teach you real world languages in the real world).

 

But there's a lot of detail and a lot of nuance throughout the game. I could have probably played this forever. Except

 

2. They haven't fixed some of the bugs that have been around since release. The last one I experienced basically ended the game for me completely. I managed to get a freighter (from saving an allied species ship during combat) and got onto it. And then my interface went stupid. I couldn't get off the ship, and I couldn't do anything in the ship. It was like I had clicked camera mode in any other game and just couldn't get out of it. And at this point, it had been a very long time since I was able to previously save the game. The game tells you that it saved the game when you get onto the freighter, but it doesn't actually do that. It just tells you it did. Only way to have saved it would have been back on a planet. That was a LONG TIME AGO.

 

I could have gone back to one of those saves hours and hours ago, and when I did, I just didn't feel like doing all that again and hope that 90 percent of the random things that happened would lead me to this wonderful point in the game. And when I tried to do that, it just went bad. So I relogged again. And it went worse.

 

So, I signed out, commented on the boards, realized that a bunch of people had made this same complaint YEARS ago, and then just decided I wouldn't be signing back on again.

That sucks about that bug! I've been fortunate that the only bugs I've encountered have been fixable.

2 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Buy one today just for Spider-Man alone. Not kidding.

Won't happen today, because I've still got other games taking my time in addition to working longer hours per week. But rest assured it won't be too long!

12 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

You're making a good decision! There's a ton of quality out on the PS4 as it's developed a wonderful library (and don't forget Bloodborne!).

 

In regards to Uncharted, remember that Lost Legacy is a full-length second Uncharted game on the system, and it's fantastic.

I'm hesitant on Bloodborne. DS didn't do anything for me, but I've been enjoying a bunch of harder action games lately, like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells. Bloodborne might be different enough from DS in all the right ways that I end up loving it. I'll probably give it a try once I have the system, but it won't be high priority.

4 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

Last Guardian, Until Dawn, Persona 5, Fucking Knack, etc....Sony killed it this gen

LG is indeed also my list, being that I was massive fan of Ico. I haven't played any of the Persona games, but the love it gets does pique my interest.

Alright. I was already pretty interested in the game since it was announced, but its high quality reviews to confirm make this the game that that broke the camel's back. GoW, Spiderman, HZD, UC, RDR*, and eventually TLoU2 are enough quality exclusives. I'm getting a PS4 (Pro). The question now is just how soon.

*Exclusive in so far as it's not on PC or Switch.

I think this is a great casting choice. My optimism has increased somewhat.

26 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Like I said, you use terms like "murdering fish" and people don't take you seriously, lol.

@johnny I think you should take Cnut's comment here to heart. Using a word you know isn't accurate to attempt to cache in on the emotional connotation it typically carries probably isn't going to be helpful. In some cases that strategy works to manipulate people (even though I don't like it being done then either), but in this case it's just going to turn more people away from listening to what you have to say on the topic, particularly because vegan's and vegetarian's often have a stereotype of being preachy.

If you really care about changing minds on it, speak to people more fairly about it.

2 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

He very easily could have said that to his knowledge, he hadn't. He's under oath, so he wouldn't be lying if he was not aware that someone he had spoken to worked at that firm. Nobody would have held that against him. His caginess here is the issue.

Yeah I agree with that. If he gave the answer "I never knowingly talked to someone at the firm about the topic, but it's possible some degree of discussion happened with someone whom I didn't know worked there being that it's a big story" it would have been a completely legit answer. His refusal to say that though is concerning. It raises the issue that he did deliberately talk to someone there about it, but doesn't want to say while also not wanting to get caught in a lie if she knows he did and can prove he intentionally spoke to someone there about it.

12 hours ago, PaladinSolo said:

Trump already felt that he had a dwindling circle of people who he could trust, a senior administration official said. According to one Trump friend, he fretted after Wednesday’s op-ed that he could only trust his children.

Maybe you could trust more people if you stopped being an enormous gaping asshole! Just a really wacky thought of mine!

Nothing of merit. I appreciate people working to do otherwise, but it's not one of the battles I'm going to pick.

I will, however, completely switch over to lab grown meat when it's viable.

18 years... but I still remember PS2 being a super next gen console that came after so many former gaming systems 

2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

@legend isn't there some sort of machine learning thing that can give an estimate of who wrote this trash based on previous writings? I mean, not that anyone in this administration is particularly well written, but would it be possible?

Given sufficient previously written text from the candidate set, it could probably be done with reasonable accuracy.

(And if no one has has done this application before, it's super low hanging fruit. I feel pretty confident I know how I would do it and it would just be matter of getting training data and some hyperparameter search.)

If it's actually as bad as described... fucking Christ.